MAKARSKA - LOCAL AND TOURIST INFORMATION

Makarska

Makarska is a popular tourist centre on the coast midway between Split and Dubrovnik. The old Mediterranean town centre with St Mark's church decorated by Venetian sculptors and many other old churches and a museum, is situated beneath a mountain backdrop. The town has many new hotels, facilities, wellness, water sports, restaurants, shops and markets. The City Sport Centre and the Tennis Centre are open to visitors. Makarska is famous for its beautiful 1500m long beach in front of a pine wood and numerous sandy coves. The car ferry from Makarska crosses to Sumartin on the island of Brac.

Makarska

Split

Split, the main port for travel to the Adriatic islands, is also home to the Diocletian Palace, built by the Roman Emperor Diocletian at the end of the third century AD. The Palace forms the core of the old town and has been adapted and remodelled throughout the ages so that it displays a breath-taking mix of architecture from the Roman through to the later Venetian period.

Split waterfront

Louise Reddon writing in The Daily Telegraph captured the atmosphere of Split perfectly: When Emperor Diocletian was considering retirement from governing the Roman Empire, he shopped around, found no decent rest homes and decided to build his own. And so Split was born. This magnificent walled city palace was built to Diocletian's exacting standards, and today retains enough original charms to attract visitors by the thousands. Amid the remnants of his grand residences, there is a pleasingly workaday town. Pavement cafès, cosy bars and plenty of shops mix with two lively markets and chic apartments built from the very barracks where Diocletian's soldiers once lived. Visit this 1700-year-old living museum during Split‘s Summer Festival in which cultural events are often staged in the open air. Drinking cocktails with the posing parade along the ritzy palm-lined ‘Riva‘ promenade. Afterwards, head to house-music haunt, Caffe Bar Fluid, and sit outside on steps that lead to the little-known second tier of the palace. Bacvice beach, a 15-minute stroll east, has buzzy nightclubs.

The Neretva Delta, Mostar and Medugorje

The Neretva Delta, about one hour drive north west of Dubrovnik and 45 minutes south east from Makarska, with its fertile groves of oranges and lemons and networks of lakes, rivers, and canals provides an unusual and contrasting landscape. Over the border in Bosnia, the historic town of Mostar, with its iconic bridge provides a vivid cultural contract with it Mosques, local cuisine and busy narrow shopping streets and market stalls. Mostar is around 45km from the Croatian border at Metkovic. The town of Medugorje, the famous place of religious pilgrimage, is as similar distance from the border.

The Neretva Delta

Mostar, Old Town and Bridge

Our Villas in Makarska

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Large country villa with garden, infinity pool, wellness and entertainment rooms and small football field, pet friendly. Set in stunning countryside in the hinterland of Makarska and Split, 18km (10 miles) from some of the best beaches.

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